Letter: Silencing scientists will hurt us all

CREDO Action is a social change network of 5 million activists organizing and mobilizing for progressive change.

CREDO reported that Joel Clement was the top climate change scientist at the Department of the Interior until last month. That’s when Trump’s department chief quietly banished him to an accounting job, where he processes royalty payments from fossil fuel companies.

Clement is one of about 50 scientists and senior officials quietly removed from their posts at the Department of the Interior in July. He believes he was punished for speaking out about the climate risks facing Alaska Native villages.

Doesn’t it appear the Trump administration heads a death squad performing many actions that could well lead to the extermination of human life on earth?